Militants
fighting for the Islamic State in Iraq have savagely executed 10 doctors
who refused to treat wounded members of the terrorist organisation.
A
photograph taken in the battle-ravaged area 15 miles south of the
extremists' northern Iraqi stronghold Mosul captures the moment fighters
killed several of the doctors with a bullet to the head.
ISIS
jihadis are understood to have been fighting local groups in the Hammam
al-Alil area when several of them sustained injuries requiring medical
treatment. When the doctors refused on the grounds they do not support
the terror group's activities, the men were brutally murdered.
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Shocking: This photograph - taken in
the battle-ravaged area 15 miles south of the extremists' northern Iraqi
stronghold Mosul - captures the moment fighters killed several of the
doctors with a bullet to the head
Details of the doctors' brutal murders in the northern Iraqi desert were reported by the country's Al-Sumaria satellite television network.
Local
official Mowaffaq Hamid al-Azawi described the city of Mosul as a big
open-air prison, where residents are subjected to barbaric torture at
the hands of the ISIS terrorists.
The news comes as the jihadis reportedly executed 60 Sunni tribal fighters in Iraq's Anbar provide
Members
of the Al-Karableh, Albu Ubaid, Albu Mahal and Albu Salman tribes were
brutally executed after paranoid ISIS militants accused them of
collaborating with the Iraqi security forces.
Iraqi
Army soldiers and the Iran-backed volunteer Shiite militias allied with
the Iraqi regime have had great success in pushing ISIS out of key
towns and villages recently.
Just
last week the security forces liberated the city of Tikrit - the
birthplace of Saddam Hussein and a strategically important area from
which the Iraqi Army will look to recapture Mosul and eventually force
ISIS out of the country altogether.
Militants: ISIS jihadis (pictured) are
understood to have been fighting local groups in the Hammam al-Alil
area when several of them sustained injuries requiring medical treatment
This
morning U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the U.S. has made
progress against ISIS in Iraq but cannot predict how long the fight will
take.
Speaking
at a joint news conference with his South Korean counterpart, Carter
said he would not go so far as to say this is the beginning of the end
for ISIS in Iraq.
ISIS' onslaught
plunged Iraq into its worst crisis since the 2011 U.S. troop withdrawal
from the country. The militants have also targeted Iraq's indigenous
religious minorities, including Christians and followers of the ancient
Yazidi faith, forcing tens of thousands from their homes.
Since
then, ISIS has carved out a self-styled caliphate in the large area
straddling the Iraqi-Syrian border that it now controls.
In
early August, the United States launched airstrikes on the militant
group in Iraq, in an effort to help Iraqi forces fight back against the
growing threat by the IS militants, who still hold the northern Iraqi
province of Ninevah and most of the western province of Anbar, in
addition to small areas north of Baghdad in their hands, along with a
large swath of land in neighboring Syria.
ISIS FREE MORE THAN 200 YAZIDI PRISONERS… WHO ALL FEARED THEY WERE BEING DRIVEN TO THEIR DEATHS FOR ANOTHER EXECUTION VIDEO
More
than 200 Yazidi prisoners have been set free in northern Iraq after
nearly a year in Islamic State captivity, Kurdish military has said
today.
The
freed prisoners said that they had been led to believe they were being
led to their execution, but instead, were piled onto a minibus that
drove them to peshmerga positions.
The Yazidis, made up of women, children and the elderly, are said to be in poor health and bearing signs of abuse and neglect.
Fear: The 216 prisoners, including 40
children, believed they were being led to their execution, but instead,
were piled onto minibuses that drove them to a handover southwest of
Kirkuk
Free at last: A mother hugs here young
child in celebration at being released. The freed Yazidis were taken
away by ambulances and buses to receive treatment and care
The
216 prisoners have been held captive in the Islamic State since last
summer when militants attacked their villages in the area around Sinjar
in northwestern Iraq.
General
Hiwa Abdullah, a peshmerga commander in the northern Iraqi city of
Kirkuk, said that about 40 children are among those released, while the
rest were elderly, some of whom were too exhausted and disoriented to
speak.
No
reason was given for the release of the prisoners, which took place in
Himera just southwest of Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad.
The freed Yazidis were taken away by ambulances and buses to receive treatment and care.
One elderly woman said she had been captured by the
insurgents last August when they overpowered Kurdish forces in
the Sinjar area and proceeded to purge its Yazidi population,
killing hundreds and taking thousands captive.
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